This document outlines the five major perspectives in psychology: biopsychological, psychodynamic, behavioral, cognitive, and humanistic. It provides a brief overview of each perspective, including their key theorists and focuses. The biopsychological perspective studies biological bases of behavior like genes and brain chemistry. The psychodynamic perspective emphasizes unconscious drives and childhood experiences. Behaviorism only considers observable behaviors and environmental influences. Cognitive psychology focuses on internal mental processes like problem-solving and memory. Finally, humanism views people as inherently good and focused on self-actualization.

1. Major Perspective within
Psychology
By: Jaqueline Janell Villarosa
MAIS-ASE

2. ACTIVITY
(Personality Test)

3. A WALK IN THE
WOODS

4. • Picture yourself walking through
a beautiful forest. The sun is
out, there’s a perfect breeze. It’s
just beautiful.

5. Who are you walking with?
• As you continue on in your walk
through the forest, you come
across an animal.

6. What kind of animal is it?
• You come up to the animal.

7. What does the animal do?
• You’re walking deeper into the
woods yet, and you come to a
clearing. There’s a house in the
middle of the clearing.

8. How big is it? Is it fenced in
or no?
• You walk up to the door of the
home and it’s a bit open. You
enter and see a table.

9. Describe what’s on the
table.
• You finish looking around the
house and leave out the back
door. There’s a huge lawn and in
the center is a garden. In the
garden, you find a cup.

10. What is the cup made out
of? What do you do with
the cup?
• As you walk to the end of the
garden, you find yourself at a
body of water.

11. What kind of body of water
is it? A lake? River? Pond?
• You must cross this water in
water in order to get home.

12. How wet do you get?

13. • Ready for some answers?

14. • The person you were walking
with is the most important
person in your life.

15. • The size of the animal you
come across is a
presentation of the size of
your problems.

16. • If your action was more
severe, it means you tend to
be more aggressive. If it was
peaceful, then more passive.

17. • The size of your home is
representative of the size of
your ambition.

18. • If there was no fence around
the home, it means you tend
to be more open.

19. • If what you saw on the table
wasn’t food, people, or
flowers, it indicates some
unhappiness.

20. • How durable the cup you found
was is representative of how
strong your relationship is with
the person in the first part of
the story. What you do with it is
representative of your attitude
toward them.

21. • The size of the body of water is
related to size of your sexual
drive.

22. • If you became very wet, it
indicates that sex is important
to you. If not very wet, it may
mean it’s less important.

23. Five Major Perspectives
in Psychology

24. Five Major Perspectives
in Psychology
1. Biopsychological
2. Psychodynamic
3. Behavioral
4. Cognitive
5. Humanistic

25. Biological Approach
• Studies the biological bases of
behavior and mental processes.
Focus on:
• Hormones, heredity, brain
chemicals,
• Functions like eating, emotions

26. Biological Approach
• The biological approach believes
that most behavior is inherited and
has an adaptive function.
• Theorists in the biological
perspective who study behavioral
genomics consider how genes affect
behavior.

27. Biological Approach
• Biological factors such as
chromosomes, hormones and the
brain all have a significant
influence on human behavior.

28. Psychodynamic Approach
• Freud believes that events in our
childhood can have a significant
impact on our behavior as adults.

29. Psychodynamic Approach
• He also believed that people have
little free will to make choices in
life.
• Our behavior is determined by the
unconscious mind and childhood
experiences.

30. Behavioral Approach
• John B. Watson & B.F. Skinner
• Focuses on the study of Behavior
 Objective
Role of the environment

31. Behavioral Approach
Behaviorism is a school of psychology
that studies that only behavior that
can be observed or measured. It does
not include the study of emotions or
motives.

32. Behavioral Approach
Behavioral psychologists believe that
external environmental stimuli
influence your behavior and that you
can be trained to act a certain way.

33. Cognitive Approach
• In contrast to behaviorist, cognitive
psychologist believe that your
behavior is determined by your
expectations and emotions.

34. Cognitive Approach
• Cognitive psychologist Jean Piaget
would argue that you remember
things based on what you already
know.

35. Cognitive Approach
• You also solve problems based on
your memory of past experiences.
• With this approach, we turn away
from people as machines without
free will and delve back into
thoughts and feelings.

36. Humanistic Approach
• Humanistic psychologists believe
that you’re essentially good and
that you’re motivated to realize
your full potential.

37. Humanistic Approach
• Psychologists from this camp focus
on how you can feel good about
yourself by fulfilling your needs and
goals.

38. Humanistic Approach
• The humanistic perspective is an
approach to psychology that
emphasizes empathy and stresses
the good in human behavior.

39. Humanistic Approach
• In contrast to the behavioral
approach, the humanistic approach
works on individual empowerment.
• Whether you are right or not, in a
larger sense, you are motivated to
be the person you can be.

40. The end.
Thank you for listening. =)))